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As students start their first full week of classes, we want to share these delightful #queensu tricolour French curls. From William Somner's "The Antiquities of Canterbury" (1640). #marbledmonday #marbledpaper #canterbury #rarebooks #specialcollections #… https://t.co/vsVNWbhwGX
A bright placard pattern for #marbledmonday. This paper is from our #1stedition Falconry in the British Isles, by Francis Henry Salvin.
#marbledpaper #SpecialCollections #Falconry https://t.co/wmWkYEucLp
Happy #MarbledMonday! This placard patterned paper is from our 1774 edition of the The Seasons, written by James Thomson.
#MarbledPaper #18thcentury #poetry #RareBooks #SpecialCollections https://t.co/O19KDVTxJv
Happy Halloween! Need some last minute #halloweencostume inspiration? We give you: Pumpkin Man! Apparently being a pumpkin person means you have webbed hands??? This is just one of many illustrations by W.W. Denslow in “The Pearl and the Pumpkin” (1904).… https://t.co/pTWiAXC1EM
This engraving is captioned "The Unexpected Attack." Can you blame that sweet face though?
The engraving is from the March 1872 issue of Peterson's Magazine (vol. 61, no. 3). Each issue includes stories, poems, fashion tips and patterns, and initials fo… https://t.co/npdqKkkpV6
Published in 1697, this edition of Myographia Nova, written by John Browne, has some interesting drawings added by an early hand.
#blastfromthelibrarypast #marginalia #rarebooks #17thcentury https://t.co/ma4YXpOIlO
A #tinytuesday thumb Bible! Published c. 1900, this miniature would have been given to a child for good behaviour. #specialcollections
Marbled boards and fore-edge on the 5 volume set “The Works of Lord Macaulay,” published in 1873.
#marbledmonday #marbledpaper #specialcollections https://t.co/gwB4mFIVku
Beautiful engraving from
Recueil des plans, élévations et coupes; an #18thcentury folio on French gardens and castles by Emmanuel Héré.
#architecture #frencharchitecture #emmanuelhere #rarebooks https://t.co/K9E7ncH0Cr
Happy #MarbledMonday! This week's post shows the beautiful hand-marbled pages from an earlier #LibraryBookArt post. The papers were created by Christine McNair in 2004. (Margaret Laurence, The Diviners, 1974).
#MarbledPaper #iglibraries #SpecialColl… https://t.co/x2DrJh69N3